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第55章 BOOK V(2)

When the Emperor Lucius had well understood their credence,he was sore moved as he had been all araged,and said,I had supposed that Arthur would have obeyed to my commandment,and have served you himself,as him well beseemed or any other king to do.O Sir,said one of the senators,let be such vain words,for we let you wit that I and my fellows were full sore afeard to behold his countenance;I fear me ye have made a rod for yourself,for he intendeth to be lord of this empire,which sore is to be doubted if he come,for he is all another man than ye ween,and holdeth the most noble court of the world,all other kings nor princes may not compare unto his noble maintenance.On New Year's Day we saw him in his estate,which was the royalest that ever we saw,for he was served at his table with nine kings,and the noblest fellowship of other princes,lords,and knights that be in the world,and every knight approved and like a lord,and holdeth Table Round:and in his person the most manly man that liveth,and is like to conquer all the world,for unto his courage it is too little:wherefore I advise you to keep well your marches and straits in the mountains;for certainly he is a lord to be doubted.Well,said Lucius,before Easter I suppose to pass the mountains,and so forth into France,and there bereave him his lands with Genoese and other mighty warriors of Tuscany and Lombardy.And I shall send for them all that be subjects and allied to the empire of Rome to come to mine aid.And forthwith sent old wise knights unto these countries following:first to Ambage and Arrage,to Alexandria,to India,to Armenia,whereas the river of Euphrates runneth into Asia,to Africa,and Europe the Large,to Ertayne and Elamye,to Araby,Egypt,and to Damascus,to Damietta and Cayer,to Cappadocia,to Tarsus,Turkey,Pontus and Pamphylia,to Syria and Galatia.And all these were subject to Rome and many more,as Greece,Cyprus,Macedonia,Calabria,Cateland,Portugal,with many thousands of Spaniards.Thus all these kings,dukes,and admirals,assembled about Rome,with sixteen kings at once,with great multitude of people.When the emperor understood their coming he made ready his Romans and all the people between him and Flanders.

Also he had gotten with him fifty giants which had been engendered of fiends;and they were ordained to guard his person,and to break the front of the battle of King Arthur.And thus departed from Rome,and came down the mountains for to destroy the lands that Arthur had conquered,and came unto Cologne,and besieged a castle thereby,and won it soon,and stuffed it with two hundred Saracens or Infidels,and after destroyed many fair countries which Arthur had won of King Claudas.And thus Lucius came with all his host,which were disperplyd sixty mile in breadth,and commanded them to meet with him in Burgoyne,for he purposed to destroy the realm of Little Britain.

CHAPTER III

How King Arthur held a parliament at York,and how he ordained the realm should be governed in his absence.

NOW leave we of Lucius the Emperor and speak we of King Arthur,that commanded all them of his retinue to be ready at the utas of Hilary for to hold a parliament at York.And at that parliament was concluded to arrest all the navy of the land,and to be ready within fifteen days at Sandwich,and there he showed to his army how he purposed to conquer the empire which he ought to have of right.And there he ordained two governors of this realm,that is to say,Sir Baudwin of Britain,for to counsel to the best,and Sir Constantine,son to Sir Cador of Cornwall,which after the death of Arthur was king of this realm.And in the presence of all his lords he resigned the rule of the realm and Guenever his queen to them,wherefore Sir Launcelot was wroth,for he left Sir Tristram with King Mark for the love of Beale Isould.Then the Queen Guenever made great sorrow for the departing of her lord and other,and swooned in such wise that the ladies bare her into her chamber.Thus the king with his great army departed,leaving the queen and realm in the governance of Sir Baudwin and Constantine.And when he was on his horse he said with an high voice,If I die in this journey Iwill that Sir Constantine be mine heir and king crowned of this realm as next of my blood.And after departed and entered into the sea at Sandwich with all his army,with a great multitude of ships,galleys,cogs,and dromounds,sailing on the sea.

CHAPTER IV

How King Arthur being shipped and lying in his cabin had a marvellous dream and of the exposition thereof.

AND as the king lay in his cabin in the ship,he fell in a slumbering and dreamed a marvellous dream:him seemed that a dreadful dragon did drown much of his people,and he came flying out of the west,and his head was enamelled with azure,and his shoulders shone as gold,his belly like mails of a marvellous hue,his tail full of tatters,his feet full of fine sable,and his claws like fine gold;and an hideous flame of fire flew out of his mouth,like as the land and water had flamed all of fire.After,him seemed there came out of the orient,a grimly boar all black in a cloud,and his paws as big as a post;he was rugged looking roughly,he was the foulest beast that ever man saw,he roared and romed so hideously that it were marvel to hear.Then the dreadful dragon advanced him and came in the wind like a falcon giving great strokes on the boar,and the boar hit him again with his grizzly tusks that his breast was all bloody,and that the hot blood made all the sea red of his blood.Then the dragon flew away all on an height,and came down with such a swough,and smote the boar on the ridge,which was ten foot large from the head to the tail,and smote the boar all to powder both flesh and bones,that it flittered all abroad on the sea.

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